Today is Wednesday, Feb. 12, the 43rd day of 2025. There are 322 days left in the year. Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On Feb. 12, 1999, the Senate voted to acquit ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic historical figure, gunned down by an assassin just days after winning the nation's bloodiest war. A Republican ...

A politician is up for reelection, holding firm to their moral convictions — however politically unpopular — in the pursuit of preserving an endangered democracy. Sound familiar? A new biography by ...

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN CONSISTING OF THE PERSONAL PORTIONS OF HIS LETTERS SPEECHESAND CONVERSATIONS COMPILED AND ANNOTATED BY NATHANIEL WRIGHT STEPHENSON ...

Lincoln revisionism is not new. In the nineteen-fifties, Edmund Wilson, in these pages, shook off the crooning hagiography of Carl Sandburg’s multivolume biography and replaced it with a vision of ...

With Election Day just around the corner, thoughts from historian Jon Meacham, whose new book chronicles the life and evolution of President Abraham Lincoln: He thought everything was over. It was the ...

In 1855, Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to his best friend, Joshua Speed. Speed was from a wealthy, slave-owning Kentucky family; Lincoln believed slavery was wrong. You are mistaken about this, ...

Bobby Poirier and J.B. Waterman depict Capt. David Derickson and Abraham Lincoln in "Lover of Men." (Special Occasion Studios) Debates over Abraham Lincoln's private life have lingered for years, but ...